"Don’t do it" 2026 Blizzard obs, updates and pictures.

[Modfan2]

Rhode Island is getting smoked!!  

[weatherwiz]

may be getting strongest gusts so far

[Henry's Weather]

Nothing robs joy more than 6 days of hand-wringing just be disappointed by 10 inches. Not sure tracking is worth it

[mahk_webstah]

13 minutes ago, dendrite said:

0.5” here

It may start picking up there in the next 30-60 mins

The 10 mile difference between us is significant with the radar beam drift

[#NoPoles]

My sister in Plymouth, MA sent this to me. Parents live in Plymouth, as well. I should have taken PTO and hone home.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Kax9y824C/

[JJBASHB]

.25mi vis and gusting to 30 at MHT last observation.  Getting closer to Blizzard conditions.  

[jbenedet]

8 minutes ago, DomNH said:

A whopping 46 customers out in NH. Color me shocked that winds were a relative nothingburger here. 

That’s not it; it’s also the powder here vs the heavy wet snow. 
 

Here we are trading worse visibility—with the blowing and drifting snow— for less outages.

[mahk_webstah]

15 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

I’ve lived in ASH for 12 years now and can confirm with absolute certainty that this area blows for everything weather wise except for heat. We do that well.

There are some great towns to your west as you get into the hilly area, but then there’s also towns to the east a little closer to the coast that tend to get on these coastal pretty well.

[NeonPeon]

It just won't stop dumping. Marvellous.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

966mb at 7am South of BM impressive.. 

[Henry's Weather]

As a kid, I was so happy with dec 2009 and getting 5 inches. The wonder is gone and I blame dopa-drip model output and loss aversion/overcomparison

[wx2fish]

2 minutes ago, jculligan said:

Hard to know for certain with the wind, but it appears only 0.5" in the last hour as we've been in the subsidence zone between bands. 5" event total so far. Temp down to 23F.

Pretty low vis here, but crappy flakes now. 5.8" here in Windham. My yard is very protected, probably helps a bit. 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Just now, NeonPeon said:

It just won't stop dumping. Marvellous.

You guys must be doing 4" per hour and approaching 24-30"

[HoarfrostHubb]

My brother measured (somehow) 16” in Foxboro

[Chrisrotary12]

3 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

There are some great towns to your west as you get into the hilly area, but then there’s also towns to the east a little closer to the coast that tend to get on these coastal pretty well.

It would be a tough choice between 1,000 hills to west or the NH Seacoast t-storm machine to the east. 

[LSC97wxnut]

Sustained wind does seem to be picking up in the last 1/2 hour or so.

[Chrisrotary12]

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

966mb at 7am South of BM impressive.. 

Meh… give me 990 mb just southeast of ACK all day.

[Wonkis]

Incredible storm—thankful to have heat and power
 

[FXWX]

8 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

may be getting strongest gusts so far

Just hit 58 mph here; ~1,200'

[Johnno]

I’d say about 10” here tough to measure… that western band is parked a couple miles west of me

[ChangeofSeasonsWX]

Wow 59 knots at KPVD. Stronger than the 54 knots they saw in Nemo. Impressive 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

6 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Meh… give me 990 mb just southeast of ACK all day.

This is a top 5er for quite a few locals : Jersey, NYC metro, Long Island SEMASS Rhode Island, just an average Blizzard here for me but a record breaking snow and wind storm as a whole. 

[moneypitmike]

15 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

They must be getting hammered there. 

 

So wish I were there......if I had a generator. 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Just now, Sey-Mour Snow said:

This is a top 5er for quite a few locals : Jersey, NYC metro, Long Island SEMASS Rhode Island, just an average Blizzard here for me but a record storm as a whole. 

How much do you have?

[Bryan63]

Can only use so many metaphors, this is unreal. The band just refuses to move, relentless rates and wind.

Kudos to Middleborough Gas & Electric, have done a great job investing into the infrastructure and so far it's showing.

[jculligan]

6 minutes ago, wx2fish said:

Pretty low vis here, but crappy flakes now. 5.8" here in Windham. My yard is very protected, probably helps a bit. 

Nice to have someone just on the other side of 93 to cross reference totals in these situations! It does appear to have picked up here in the last 15 minutes or so. As the forcing associated with the main CCB to our east starts to weaken, I'm hoping these subsidence holes will fill in a bit too.

[CCHurricane]

Best way to monitor wind gusts across a handful of stations? The once an hour found on NWS just not cutting it! 

[codfishsnowman]

29 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Kind of figured it would be a bit bad here but not this bad. But lets see what happens as the band pivots east. 

I've been through this so many times my friend. I too thought it wouldn't be this bad but also didn't think the storm was going to go that far SE. I'm wondering if this is even a shadowing issue as opposed to the goods just not getting up here.  I also thought Hartford area would have done better. You know what Ryan has in Weho?

[WinterSnow]

Looks like a foot of snow here again. Wow.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

2 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

How much do you have?

13-15”